[NYMills]

I hope this forum has some ideas because Sony tech support on the BWU-100A is clueless. I created HD material in Avid, output to Sorenson Bluray compression to DVDitPro HD. It previewed fine in DVDitHD, burned fine, but won't play in any Bluray players. The firmware is updated. The image files on the hdd play out fine. When played in PDVD6.6 is says it is an unsupported format. The .bd file is on the disc with the two folders inside it, Certi & BDMV. This can't be too hard - I've been authoring SD for a while - but I'm not getting much help from Sony Bluray drive support. I understand they are not DVD authoring gurus - they just support the drive.

Does anyone have any ideas as to the problem?

Thanks!

Michael

[SS Scott]

what players have you tried the disc in? There is a list of supported players as a sticky at the top of the forum. Your Power DVD BD may need an update...

[NYMills]

I've tried the PDVD 7.3 patch. It does not work. Otherwise I have the most recent PDVD 6.6. Is there another I should look at? This error is the same error code I got playing it on first generation BD players at a local electronics store.

Samsung(?) & Sony. Both wouldn't play. In authoring, do you just place the .bd file on the disc or do you have to pull out the BDMV and Certif files and place them on the disc?

[tnw2933]

In authoring, do you just place the .bd file on the disc or do you have to pull out the BDMV and Certif files and place them on the disc?
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You need to pull the BDMV and Certificate Folders out of the .bd folder and place only those on the disk. If you have 1.55 firmware, it will play fine then assuming your bit rate is not above about 20K. Bove 20K I get skipping and freezing on playback on my BDP-S1.

Tom

[SS Scott]

If you burned the disc with DVDit Pro HD all of the files should be on there. I suggest you go to a Best Buy and try the disc in a Panasonic or Pioneer player. neither of those has ever had a firmware issue and so then you will absolutely know you are on the right firmware. Samsung is the original firmware from 6 months ago...not what you can download today from their site. Sony works with version 1.55. Can't tell you what is up with your Power DVD BD. Is it properly playing store bought BD discs?

[NYMills]

Is it properly playing store bought BD discs?
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I don't know. I bought it for authoring purposes. It did burn off an SD DVD without any trouble.

[NYMills]

"If you have 1.55 firmware"

Is this to author on the disk or for the playback machine?

[SS Scott]

this is Sony BD Player firmware. All of the BD player manufacturers update their firmware periodically.